Alissa York
Alissa York was born in 1970, in Athabasca, Alberta, to Australian immigrant parents. There, Alissa’s father taught high school English and outdoor education, and her mother taught part-time at the local elementary school and studied creative writing at the University of Alberta. Alissa has commented, “My imprint from that time is incredibly strong… I’m drawn to writing about people with their insides showing. There’s a boiling down of human experience in small towns.” In 1977, the family moved to Victoria, British Columbia. A decade later, Alissa graduated from high school and moved to Toronto, then on to Montreal, where she studied...
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The Journey Prize Stories 22
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-4344-4 (0-7710-4344-9)
September 28, 2010 | $17.99
Discover the next generation of great Canadian writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors — including such now well-known, bestselling writers as...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-4344-4 (0-7710-4344-9)
September 28, 2010 | $17.99
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Discover the next generation of great Canadian writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors — including such now well-known, bestselling writers as...
Also available as an
eBook.
Fauna
Hardcover | 384 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35789-2 (0-307-35789-9)
July 27, 2010 | $29.95
In her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays...
Written by Alissa York
Hardcover | 384 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35789-2 (0-307-35789-9)
July 27, 2010 | $29.95
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In her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays...
Also available as an
eBook.
Fauna
eBook | pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37570-4 (0-307-37570-6)
July 27, 2010 | $29.95
In her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays...
Written by Alissa York
eBook | pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37570-4 (0-307-37570-6)
July 27, 2010 | $29.95
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In her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Effigy
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37562-9 (0-307-37562-5)
January 29, 2010 | $21.00
A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah.
Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary...
Written by Alissa York
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37562-9 (0-307-37562-5)
January 29, 2010 | $21.00
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A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah.
Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary...
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trade paperback.
Effigy
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31473-8 (0-679-31473-3)
December 11, 2007 | $21.00
A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah.
Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary...
Written by Alissa York
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31473-8 (0-679-31473-3)
December 11, 2007 | $21.00
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A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah.
Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary...
Also available as an
eBook.
Mercy
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31217-8 (0-679-31217-X)
December 2, 2003 | $21.00
Award-winning author Alissa York’s first novel is a haunting and masterful exploration of how passions of the spirit and the flesh can overwhelm us, and even come to inhabit the ground beneath our feet. Divided into two parts, Mercy pairs a single year in the past with a single night in...
Written by Alissa York
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31217-8 (0-679-31217-X)
December 2, 2003 | $21.00
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Award-winning author Alissa York’s first novel is a haunting and masterful exploration of how passions of the spirit and the flesh can overwhelm us, and even come to inhabit the ground beneath our feet. Divided into two parts, Mercy pairs a single year in the past with a single night in...
